A group of hackers hacked the online university founded by the controversial, to say the least, influencer Andrew Tate, disseminating the data of almost 800,000 usersincluding thousands of email addresses and entire private chat logs.
The online platform “The Real World” was the victim of a cyber attack on November 21st. Launched as “Hustler’s University,” the site offers courses on various topics, including fitness, finance and content creation, for a monthly subscription of $50. At the time of the attack, it had approximately 113,000 active members. However, according to those responsible for the intrusion, the site’s security was “ridiculously insecure.”
Andrew Tate remains under house arrest in Romania awaiting trial.
The attack occurred while Tate was broadcasting his show Emergency Meeting on Rumble. The hackers managed to infiltrate the platform’s main chatroom, uploading provocative emojis, such as a transgender flag and an AI-generated image depicting Tate with a rainbow flag. Furthermore, they temporarily banned some users, deleted attachments and caused crashes in members’ login systems.
Even more worrying data emerged from the cyber-attack report, include usernames of 794,000 users, emails of 325,000 subscribers and a large amount of public and private chats. Some of this information has been shared with platforms such as HaveIBeenPwned e DDoSecretsspecializing in the management of personal data breaches. The messages reveal discussions on controversial topics such as the “LGBTQ agenda,” “The Matrix” and issues related to violence and abuse.
This is not the first violation for the platform: at the beginning of the year, Cybernews had reported the exposure of data relating to one million users and 22 million messages.
Andrew Tate, known for his polarizing opinions and self-proclaimed misogynistis currently on trial in Romania for human trafficking and faces extradition to the UK on similar charges. This attack further undermines the credibility of his digital project.
Hackers they used the stolen data to flood the course’s chatroom with provocative emojis, including transgender flags and edited images of Tate. The collective then provided the breached data to the Daily Dot, which shared it with the site Have I Been Pwned and DDoSecrets, a nonprofit that archives leaked datasets in the public interest.
Source: www.tomshw.it
